Greetings All, A couple of interesting news bits for one of my personal favorites in the current AFV category. General Dynamics, Rafael to Replace the...
Greetings All, Though the author of this article is a bit of a ditz with no real understanding or appreciation for the potential or accomplishments of STEAM...
Greetings All, Just in case any of you Two Wheeler enthusiasts are feeling a little left out by all that Steam Car babble here are a couple of rare gems!!!...
not too many people anymore remember the stanley and white steamers, or the stanley rocket speed record in 1906 when for most cars 50 mles an hour was still...
further steam thoughts, along with flash boilers i'd think it possible that a computer about the size of a current car engine control computer could control a...
Greetings Gunner and All, Back in the day, the thing that really killed the old steamers was the production costs. The end product cost to the customer was...
Greetings All, Since our good friend and fellow SFA member ~ Terry Sofian ~ seems rather disinclined toward boasting of his latest achievement I have taken it...
Greetings All, Just a couple of weeks ago I joined a local model building group. ~ Rimrock Plastic Modelers. ~ They seem to be a great bunch of guys (and a...
i'm sure you can pull it off, good luck. "gunner" ... From: Dan <grauwulf@...> Subject: [Sci-Fi_Armor] Junping Tracks To: Sci-Fi_Armor@yahoogroups.com ...
Thank you very much for that post! There is some addtional Hive Fiction on my Yahoo group, including some nice work by other members of that group including a...
Greetings All, Well, project TRIPOD hit a little bit of snag over the weekend. The converted PC Mouse that I am trying to use just would not take to gluing....
Greetings Terry and All, Interesting indeed. Though I am a bit confused by his description. It almost sounds like a battery of volley guns which were not...
ah yes, "the search" i just went through the same thing hitting local stores for an l.e.d. conversion for my mag-lite after trying out l.e.d.s in my mini-mag...
Greetings Gunner and All, ... I missed that boat with my AVALON project. (No Pun Intended!) I greatly regret not having at least tried to make some sort of...
Greetings Terry and All, A couple of GREAT and interesting Links! THANKS!!! --- I've added them to our SFA ~ LAND IRONCLADS ~ listing in the Links section. ...
i remember seeing a woodcut picture and brief write up on puckle's "defense" in an early edition of "small arms of the world" but with no mechanical details....
Greetings Gunner and All, The thing that really strikes me the most is the major effect that this weapon would have had on military tactics and development not...
when a weapon was avaiable in sufficient numbers, it was fielded. but a key facor is reliability. im my understanding one of the reasons for the ACW being the...
as i remember it the first "tank" was designed by da vinci, though the roman "testudo", infantry raising their shields overhead to as cover from arrow barrages...
festus has a point, one of the 19th century weapon designers, i think it may have been gatling, was said to have hoped his new gun would make war "too horrible...
Greetings Festus, Gunner and All, There is no disputing the advantages gained by the Industrial Revolution on every conceivable front. From Quality to...
... I´m not speaking of skills. what i am missing is a sufficient supply of quality weapons grade steel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer_process pretty...
"BTW Sort of Speaking of Which --- Did you all know that out of all of the numberless horrible ways that we found to kill each other during WWI that the...
Greetings Festus, Gunner and All, ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer_process pretty much sums it up. < From the top of the same page --- " Henry...
Greetings All, Military Covering Up Fireballs From Space http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525832,00.html Twenty UFOs Spotted Flying In Formation Over...
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